• Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
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    Current political stage is more left vs right, progressive vs conservative, woke vs antiwoke. Russia is ally of conservatives, because their politics are far right conservative.

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    Lady, the states have always supported dictators that were friendly to them (often because they were installed BY the USA, like Fulgencion Batista, Manuel Noriega, Augusto Pinochet, to name a few)

    “waa waa trump is a russian puppet”

    Karma sure is a bitch, huh? Enjoy.

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    TBO US supported dictators before, Pinochet, Marcos, Saddam, Suharto, Batista and others.

    This is the first time for a major land. Still scary and absurd tough.

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      Vermont is awesome, we’re planning to move there once our family situation changes, but it may be a few more years of caretaking before we can. In the mean time we’re trying to keep the state we’re in at least purple as long as possible.

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      Fuck. See, that was easy, no censoring necessarily at all.

      As in: Fuck off for using the r-word.

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        The war on all words that describe a negative trait continues.

        I promise whatever the goalposts are set to will be the next inappropriate term.

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          I don’t know about that. What I do is try to listen to why a group thinks a word is offensive.

          The thing with “retard” is that it has been used to refer to people with mental disabilities for a very long time. By saying “republicans are retards” you say “rebilocsns are as stupid as people that were born with a mental disability”.

          Thing is, people with mental disabilities are still people. There are goofy, snarky, nice, some are even quite big assholes. Many can be a lot of fun to interact with. They are just people, even if they are not as intelligent as you or me.

          Referring to people as retarded, to me, means setting mentaly disabled people as the baseline for beeing idiots. And I just don’t think it’s fair to reduce them to something, they had no saying in what so ever. They didn’t choose to be born that way and they shouldn’t be reduced to just that.

          /rant I guess

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          Or people could just stop using slurs?

          It’s not like there’s a short list of things to dislike about fascists without punching down on social minorities…

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            Is calling someone stupid a slur? Not saying that’s what the previous poster said, legitimate question

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          Could you please not lump folks with learning and or intellectual disabilities with a bunch of spineless fascist traitors?

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      But not upset with themselves, upset that society hadn’t lowered the bar far enough for them to not feel shame for their actions.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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        My grandfather, who took a pistol off a dead Nazi doctor in the 14th Armored Division, quit the Republican Party when they had those Purple Heart Band Aids.

        I guess if you get one after waking up under the body of your dead friend you don’t get the joke.

        • jabeez@lemmy.today
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          Yeah, that was when the myth of the “liberal” media should have been permanently put down, along with the GOP, but nah, the MSM dutifully “both sides” it and so many (most?) veterans had zero problem with it. That was when the (D) party should have had its real ‘Houston, we have a problem’ moment, and started fighting the metastasizing problem of right-wing/fascist propaganda that gets merely parroted by the rest of the MSM, but alas, they did fuck-all while it just got worse and worse and worse.

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    Why the fuck are they waiting until after he came into office to hammer home the Russian ties and really bring it to the forefront?

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      They’ve literally been saying this shit for 10 years, it just doesn’t make it into the algorithms during election season.

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      Because they are cockroaches and only act for their own survival.

  • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip
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    And all it took for Republicans to get on board was the threat of primaries funded by Trump’s multi-billionaire buddy.

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      Yeah, I’m wondering what the hell is going on in Vermont, and can you guys ship it to the rest of the country?